Soon after his ascent with Beatrice into the Empyrean, Dante-pilgrim finds himself in the in the center of a celestial rose, reeling beneath the newly unmasked souls seated on its petals. Shortly thereafter, St. Bernard provides him with a visual tour of the elect, bidding him to focus on one face in particular:

A book talk and discussion with authors Ece Temelkuran and Molly Crabapple
Ece Temelkuran and Molly Crabapple will discuss the allure and curious contemporary absence of utopian visions, and the potential implications of what it means to come of age in a world on fire. Temelkuran will examine her novel The Time of Mute Swans, which explores politics in the 1970s through the eyes of two children in Ankara, Turkey. And Crabapple will analyze her co-authored memoir Brothers of the Gun about a young man finding his voice as a journalist during the war in Syrian.